Adventures in server babysitting — One weather site’s sudden struggles, and musings on why change isn’t always good. Enlarge / Ish is on fire, yo. Since 2017, in what spare time I have (ha!), I help my colleague Eric Berger host his Houston-area weather forecasting site, Space City Weather. It’s an interesting hosting challenge—on a typical day, SCW does maybe 20,000–30,000 page views to 10,000–15,000 unique visitors, which is a relatively easy load to handle with minimal work. But when sever...